Gottret, Pablo Enrique and Schieber, George J. | cop. 2006
- Author(s): Gottret, Pablo Enrique and Schieber, George J.
- Publisher: World bank
- Pages: --
- Keywords: health economics, public expenditures, financing, government spending policy, public health
This report provides an overview of health financing tools, policies, and trends, with a focus on challenges facing developing countries.
Gottret, Pablo Enrique and Schieber, George J. and Waters, Hugh R. | cop. 2008
- Author(s): Gottret, Pablo Enrique and Schieber, George J. and Waters, Hugh R.
- Publisher: World bank
- Pages: --
- Keywords: health economics, financing, public expenditures, public health, health policy, health insurance, health care delivery, chile, colombia, costa rica, estonia, kyrgyzstan, sri lanka, thailand, tunisia, vietnam
This volume focuses on nine countries that have completed, or are well along in the process of carrying out, major health financing reforms, thereby seeking to expand the evidence base on \"good performance\" in health financing reforms in low- and middle-income countries.
Goudge, Jane | 2009
- Author(s): Goudge, Jane
- Publisher: BioMed central
- Pages: --
- Keywords: health care delivery, health policy, health services research, south africa
This paper describes the difficulties poor households face in accessing chronic care in a rural area of South Africa, with the aim of informing health policy debates as to how the health system might be better organized to meet the needs of patients with chronic illness.
Greene, Margaret Eleanor and Merrick, Thomas | 2005
- Author(s): Greene, Margaret Eleanor and Merrick, Thomas
- Publisher: World bank
- Pages: --
- Keywords: health services, poverty alleviation
The primary goal of this paper is to review approaches and key findings about links between reproductive health (RH) and poverty and to suggest additional research to strengthen the evidence base for assessing those links in Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) and other poverty analyses.
Gross, J.M. | 2010
- Author(s): Gross, J.M.
- Publisher:
- Pages: 824--830
- Keywords: health personnel, nurses, health economics, kenya
This study involved an analysis of information from the Kenya Health Workforce Informatics System. It demonstrates e.g. that the recruitment and deployment of nurses was achieved more rapidly under the Emergency Hiring Plan than through regular government processes.